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Islamic African Nations 2016

Unlocks at level 2 or with the Mega Maps Pack
#Real World  
Created by Semicedevine (all)
Went public on 1/16/2016
Number of ratings: 144
Average rating: 2.7222 / 5
456 territories, 483 bonuses, 11 distribution modes

Description

A map based on the 1-bonus-for-every-territory concept.

Important Disclaimer: "Islamic", as in, "somewhat historically influenced and/or affected by Islam".

Other Disclaimer: Somalia is recognized as Islamic, but was purposely excluded to reduce map size.

Map project was originally started in May of 2015 and took 6 months longer than was expected to complete.

The theory behind the income balancing is that large countries will typically spend lesser portions of their money to finance the military, where as smaller countries will spend a much larger portion of their money on their military.

Whether or not the total income of a nation in this map is higher than another is based directly on the GDP each nation possess, with a few exceptions for small countries such as Togo, Guinea-Bissau, and Gambia. The country's total income is then distributed to its territories based on how population is distributed in the country. Territories with very few people in a country with low GDP will have very little incomes.

Reviews

Review by Zephyrum on 1/16/2016.
Shitty wordart? Check! Inconsistent territory sizes? Check! The most retarded possible distributions? Check! Fully enclaved territories? Check! Horrible territory naming? Check!

Still surprisingly good even after disconsidering the above? Hell yeah.

Strategically, you can either pick a clumped up region for high starting income and slower growth or the middle of the desert for a horrible start and early game, but increasingly snowballing income.

Diplomatically, it would be amazing for some diplos and stuff with the 1 territory 1 bonus theme, but... Roleplaying northern africa? I doubt anything that's not Egypt, Nigeria or Morocco in this map would be a bore to play as. Still good for people who want to be creative and make something new.

Probably Semice's first map that is both good and fun. Congratulations.

Now go back to the restaurant for the child labor is needed!
Response by map creator Semicedevine on 1/17/2016
Thanks very much man XD

Taking the time to write such a review... I am touched...

Because most of the postive things you pointed out I never even noticed (honestly right when I was about done with it, for whatever reason, I actually seriously and legitamently thought the map was virtual sht lol)
9 out of 9 people found this review helpful.
Review by Mike Panek on 8/13/2020.
"10-turn torture" That's all it takes to watch the algorithm annihilate you and one of your teammates while your third teammate has thousands of armies standing idle. Unless there is some hidden secret to how my teammate air-lifts those armies to help me, this is one of the worst maps.
6 out of 7 people found this review helpful.
Review by [NL] Lucas on 1/17/2016.
Bonus values are based on nothing. West Africa is worth too much and the title of the map isn't right, you can name it Northern Africa but Islamic Africa isn't right, not even half of the area is Islamic.
Response by map creator Semicedevine on 1/17/2016
Very few of the countries would consider themselves as islamic states but most of the countries do have an islamic majority (definitely what I was going for)

As for the coastal west african countries, they were included for having a long history of conflicts involving Islam
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
Review by Imperator on 1/17/2016.
It seems good enough for a diplomacy game. However, I gave it three stars on the basis that that it is seemingly arbitrarily labeled as "Islamic African Nations". For one thing, Basically everything south of Sudan are actually christian nations, with very small muslim minorities. In some cases, like South Sudan, This minority is as small as six percent. Not exactly Islamic if you ask me.

On top of this, Somalia, an actual "Islamic African Nation", was cut off of the map for seemingly no reason other than that you wanted to claim that the Christian nations you've included are "Islamic" by including them.

You've also included the SADR as a part of morocco, which is a jerk move IMO.

Despite all of these Inaccuracies, it's still a decent map, although possibly not that good for role playing because of the flaws.
3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
Review by SuperCatLord on 9/27/2017.
This is a strange messy ma- Oh wait, I'm supposed to be listing the good things.
Well, the map would be very helpful for the people that just need the northern part of Africa.

But, I recommend that you should thicken the border lines for the actual borders for countries.
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
Review by Flittering Night Beast on 6/16/2018.
I do not like big maps with 1000000 of troups blocking access to most of the map
4 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
Review by Octo on 5/11/2020.
This map is a huge piece of garbage. The single-level player is too unfair and annoying. By far, one of the worst levels
4 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
Review by yinchiao on 9/7/2021.
Geography is good, but with too many little bitty bits, also too much of the map is locked away, and bonus amts seem random. The one-player setting is, as its title says, useless.
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
Review by dataMine on 1/20/2022.
interesting concept but tedious to play
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
Review by NinjaNic on 1/17/2016.
The superbonus for Cameroon is messed up.
Response by map creator Semicedevine on 1/17/2016
getting it patched up m8
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by Wulfgard Martel on 9/28/2016.
Why have this giant map and use 1/10 of it?
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
Review by Andalorium on 12/15/2016.
It was good for what it is, but I'm still not the biggest Diplomacy map fan.
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by Earl_of_Scotland on 11/5/2019.
poor map no fun at all
4 out of 7 people found this review helpful.
Review by Derek on 2/4/2020.
fucking stupid
3 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
Review by Paul Tokarchuk on 4/17/2021.
Nice looking map but my ally to the is aptly name... Useless, my other ally is also aptly named... Weak... can't win with allies like that.
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
Review by Stefan Mitchell on 12/15/2021.
Having AI "allies" that hoard their troops is pretty useless.
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
Review by 6cats1dork on 4/5/2022.
impossible
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
Review by darkbullbvb on 8/29/2023.
worthless wasting of your time
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by Purgatory on 8/10/2019.
impossible
3 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
Review by M on 12/17/2021.
1
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
Review by GernotBodo on 12/14/2022.
impossible bs map
suggest to delete this crap
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
Review by Mark on 8/21/2023.
these giant maps are zero fun
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Aaron on 1/2/2024.
nice
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by Aefnung on 3/28/2024.
Obnoxiously overcrowded.
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
Review by MB_Shadow on 7/21/2018.
jo kann man mal spielen
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by John on 6/6/2020.
too many reinforcement cards
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by japio on 12/17/2020.
Useless game
1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
Review by rrheberto on 2/13/2021.
cool!!
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by Papa Smurf on 3/25/2021.
A stupid map, the basic idea of the game was good, but it did not work out. Finally solved this creature
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by penuria on 5/7/2022.
too big
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by Mjoth on 5/26/2022.
I wanted to like this game. I thought it was an interesting scenario and that the map was pretty cool (although the artist owes me a new pair of reading glasses lol). The problem is at Turn 8 I was getting 9 armies, my 'weak' ally was getting 17 while the nearby AI got 469 and the distant one had 187. So, please explain to me what we can do with that? I guess I'm not smart enough, so what's the secret? I have tried multiple tactics and still end up overwhelmed every time. Really, no win situation games are a waste of our time, I don't mind a stiff challenge but an automatic ass whupping is just boring.
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by sarahxxoxx on 6/11/2022.
good map but the settings are too lop-sided.
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by €nigma on 8/11/2022.
Very good map
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by Adrian on 11/4/2022.
fun map!
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.
Review by Eric on 11/17/2022.
AI, over 10,000 men, won't pass & does nothing. !!
0 out of 1 person found this review helpful.